i been doin this for 35 years and i know for a fact if i go out tonight and catch a good hog it feels just like it was my first one. i did take a 5 year break of ownin my own dogs and huntin every week about 15 years ago but i never quit goin. heck i call my huntin partner if he dont call me first and listen to how the hunts went when i dont go. i have been on so many that i can live all them hunts just by him tellin me about em. heck i ve had em call me when i dont go just so i can listen to the bay. heck i buy doggin videos of folks i have no idea who they are just cuz i love seein the dogs at work and catchin hogs.
my old hunting partner calls me and gives me the blow by blow hunt...like a good movie playin in my head...kinda like visualizing some good dogs in the woods and we are telling the story as they hunt...